📩 Simblr question of the day: You can answer one or both parts of this question!
1️⃣ Part one: If you make Story posts, what do you do for scenes? Do you build them yourself, do you download lots from the gallery or do you download them from someone online?
2️⃣ Part two: If you make Gameplay/Legacy posts, what do you do for a house? Do you build it yourself, download a home from the gallery or do you download them from someone online? Additionally, do you build onto that home or demolish it and rebuild the house when needed? (E.G When another child enters the picture or someone moves in)
❎ If you do none of those for either half, what do you do? Do you use someone else's save file? (WIndbrook by Folking, Willow Creek + Magnolia Promenade by Theneighborhoodsave, Silent Pines by Silentpinessave... etc)
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Hello Squatty! Thanks for ur hard work!
1️⃣ For scenes, I rely on my own building (and interior) skills. Sometimes, I also rely on the environment outside of a lot. (The wicked whims positioning helps a lot; I also need to try out that TOOL mod).
A scene where I used the WW positioning system to position the Vatore siblings, and Louie and Sidera near the subway which is off-lot.
There is an instance where I had to download a lot off the gallery for a scene:
Planet Honey Pop reno I got from the gallery.
Sometimes, downloading a lot off the gallery isn't just for a scene, but for a whole chapter! (e.g. the Del Sol Vanderburgs' vacation in Sulani where they rented three little huts)
Sometimes, it's best to rely on yourself when trying to build rooms for set dressing when it comes to stories. If you can't build, a shell build is your friend!
This picture is technically not from a story post, but like a character card, but anyway, the backdrop in this picture is actually just a corner of a random lot, but it's a neat set dressing no?
A room with pure black backdrop is also a staple for me for scenes:
The scene where Helen communicates with her niece through the latter's dream.
The "black room" also symbolizes being inside of the mind, just like in this scene where Amelia is speaking to her father through telepathy. The black room has two uses: photoshoot, and mind palace.
2️⃣Though technically The Davis Legacy, and its side stories, is not a legacy gameplay anymore (and had become a story), houses are still important in my posts!
The Davis residence in San Sequoia was built by yours truly, with the help of blueprints! It is my favorite of all, because every room has character, and its walls had grown covered, filled with pictures of the family.
Louie's room was his since his birth.
Mason's first room, when he was a baby and a tot, was across Louie's and it only has one window. The family (or me) moved Sophia's office to the nursery, and the old office was refurbished as Mason's room when he aged up into a child.
Sid's room was the house's parlor room, where the fish tank, and an old piano, was originally kept. They renovated it for her!
I won't demolish this house, ever, because in-lore, Sophia and Jason wanted this house to be their sons' safe haven even if they're old. (IRL, the house is my baby) Since this is also technically generational, it's natural that the children would want to move out and grow their own family, but it's also natural that some of them would want to move back, so there's no demolishing...unless a rebellious heir sold it...😈
The Del Sol Vanderburgs' mansion was a shell I downloaded from the gallery, which I decorated.
This one is another shell I got from the gallery, which I also decorated.
Sanguine, a live-in nightclub (all thanks to a mod), which House Straud runs, is built by me.
The Hibiscus Hut where Perlas lives was also built by me!
The Davises had built their home with the lottery money, aligning it with San Sequoia's architectural designs, and expanded it more when their family grows. It's not as luxurious as the Del Sol Vanderburgs, but it's homey and cozy.
The Vanderburgs screams old money, a house bought by a rich rich family that lowkey serves as a vacation home turned permanent (or is it? 😈)
The Beau-Asvangs has a luxury penthouse because they're vampires, and they're extra, so of course Lady Lana would want to buy a home that is an equivalent to their castle in the olden times. It screams money, money, money.
The Strauds runs a nightclub, which also serves as an occult safe haven (and also a place where occults can exchange information). It has dimmed lights, in the club proper, a lot of seats, funky lights, very atmospheric. Ordinary people would miss the hushed whispers of hidden occults exchanging information...also, they have their own residential tower!
Perlas' hut is humble and simple. She is a mermaid, living in Sulani. She cares little for money and mansions and penthouses, because the real riches for her is her home, the ocean.
From over the top penthouses of the vampires, to old money mansion of the Vanderburgs, to a home built by luck and hard work of the Davises, to a mermaid's humble home by the ocean - to me, all of it reflects your sims' character.
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2023 Simblr Goals ~
I like doing these to be able to reflect in a year, so let’s see:
Continue playing the NSB fam
NSB Goal: Get to Addie’s gen
Continue with the monthly themes
Continue making poses as you have time for them
Pose Goal: Make the family portrait set that’s been on your mind fo a minute
Continue having fun!
That’s really it! I don’t want to put any pressure on any of my saves aside from NSB since it means the most to me. So we’ll see how this year goes. See you at the end of it!
Some personal IRL 2023 goals if you care:
Read more books (I did 81 last year, can we beat that?)
Dedicate some more time to my bookstagram
Redecorate my room to accomodate all my books & set up a writing desk
Take more pictures!
Say yes to more things (when possible)
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